20th century & contemporary classical music books

2343 books were found.

The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise...

Author: Joan Koenig
ISBN: 9780008327798
Format: Paperback
$22.99

‘Wonderful … we need music in our lives now more than ever’ HERBIE HANCOCK ‘Joan...  Read More >>

The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens

Author: Bart Eeckhout ,  Lisa Goldfarb
ISBN: 9783031070310
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music...  Read More >>

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

Author: John Mauceri ,  Malcolm Hillgartner
ISBN: 9798200930661
Format: Audio
$84.35

 A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating...  Read More >>

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

Author: John Mauceri ,  Malcolm Hillgartner
ISBN: 9798200930654
Format: Audio
$97.55

 A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating...  Read More >>

West Side Story in Spain: The Transcultural Adaptation of an Iconic American Show

West Side Story in Spain: The Transcultural Adaptation...

Author: Paul R. Laird (University of Kansas) ,  Gonzalo Fernández Monte
ISBN: 9781108970457
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element compares the adaptations of the 1996 and 2018 versions of West Side Story in detail, illuminating issues...  Read More >>

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth...

Author: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363223
Format: Hardback
$42.99

A radical answer to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, Sound Within Sound fundamentally changes the way we think about...  Read More >>

Offenbach Performance in Budapest, 1920–1956: Orpheus on the Danube

Offenbach Performance in Budapest, 1920–1956: Orpheus...

Author: Péter Bozó
ISBN: 9781108977593
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This element identifies the important role played by Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works in Budapest musico-theatrical...  Read More >>

German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940

German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940...

Author: Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781108723329
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A study of a neglected but crucial part of the history of the West End and Broadway. The stage works presented here...  Read More >>

Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux: From Conception to Performance

Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux: From Conception...

Author: Roderick Chadwick (Royal Academy of Music, London) ,  Peter Hill (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781009247672
Format: Paperback
$56.90

This book assembles a rounded picture of one of the longest and most important piano works of the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

Author: John Mauceri
ISBN: 9780300233704
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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Music and Time: Psychology, Philosophy, Practice

Music and Time: Psychology, Philosophy, Practice

Author: Michelle Phillips ,  Dr Matthew Sergeant
ISBN: 9781783277087
Format: Hardback
$181.13

How does music manifest through time and, simultaneously, how does time manifest through music?  Read More >>

Finding Democracy in Music

Finding Democracy in Music

Author: Robert Adlington ,  Esteban Buch
ISBN: 9780367499457
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is the first study to offer a wide-ranging investigation of ways in which democracy may thus be found...  Read More >>

Malcolm Arnold: The Inside Story

Malcolm Arnold: The Inside Story

Author: Anthony Meredith
ISBN: 9781914471490
Format: Hardback
$51.62

The Inside Story sweeps away the many myths that have surrounded the intriguing figure of Malcolm Arnold. It offers...  Read More >>

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons...

Author: Jeremy Denk
ISBN: 9781447294771
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music - its power, its meaning, and what it can teach...  Read More >>

America in the French Imaginary,  1789-1914: Music, Revolution and Race

America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914: Music,...

Author: Diana R. Hallman ,  César A. Leal
ISBN: 9781783277001
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in...  Read More >>

Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription

Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives...

Author: Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University, Netherlands) ,  Emily Payne
ISBN: 9780367359522
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in...  Read More >>

Improvision: Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

Improvision: Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

Author: Professor Simon Shaw-Miller
ISBN: 9781350203426
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously...  Read More >>

On Jazz: A Personal Journey

On Jazz: A Personal Journey

Author: Alyn Shipton
ISBN: 9781108834230
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Brim-full of personal reminiscence and zesty anecdote, On Jazz is an affectionate portrait of the personalities...  Read More >>

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music

Author: Aaron Hayes ,  Judy Lochhead
ISBN: 9780367612603
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished

The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts:...

Author: Andy Hamilton (Durham University, UK) ,  Dr Lara Pearson (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350331037
Format: Paperback
$84.99

The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and...  Read More >>

The Heroic in Music

The Heroic in Music

Author: Beate Kutschke ,  Katherine Butler, BSc MBBCh
ISBN: 9781783276899
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to...  Read More >>

Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist in Turbulent Times

Karl Straube (1873–1950): Germany’s Master Organist...

Author: Professor Christopher Anderson ,  Emeritus Professor Ralph P. Locke (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781648250385
Format: Hardback
$422.40

The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany...  Read More >>

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